NEW biological weapons are being created right this minute – though not in any secret laboratory or military base. Out of reach of international legislation, there is a genetic lending library of evil in action, and while you may not realise it, you are intimately involved. It’s been going on for millions of years, but we have only just begun to explore this sinister new territory. Welcome to the pathosphere.
What is the pathosphere? It is the surprisingly vast and growing gene pool in which pathogens, the microbes that cause disease, meet and mingle. Scientists have long known that the so-called…
